Piano in a Storeroom

Piano in a Storeroom — Plot

Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing a piano in a barn. A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, she decides she wants to be a pianist. Akiba, for her part, moved to Tokyo to attend college. When she moves back to Koori, Haruka is unsettled and memories connected to the disaster she has tried to forget resurface.

• Release date
• February 9, 2014
• Runtime
• 115 min
• Director
• Chiaki Nitanai

Piano in a Storeroom — Cast

Kyoko Yoshine Haruka Miyamoto Ena Koshino Akiba Miyamoto Shiro Sano Hatsunori Hasegawa Junkichi Orimoto Mitsuru Hirata Mariko Akama